Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-10-21
State 11ems.

Burlington has expended some $780,
600 during the past year i'll new build
ings.
The Brandon skating rink is to be re-
opened under the management of the
band.
Rutland rum-sellers were fined about
$1,000 by one justice between May and
September and the greater part of the
fines were paid.
OF 81, JIG convicts in 80 States and Ter
rtories, SIG are in for arson. Vermont's
cOnvcts for this crime are II per cent. of
the whole number.
J. NJ. Goodnough's house and farm
buildings in Pittsford were burned Sun
day morning. The loss is $4,000 to SO. 900
and the insurance small.
Lydia, the l6-year-old daughter of Har-
rison Pratt of Brandon, attempted suicide
the other day with laudanum, but was
found. A young man is said to be the
cause of the act.
Joseph Farr of Waitsfield got into a
controversy with pole he was using to
knock apples from a tree and was hit in
the mouth and lost several teeth.
ii. NJ. Dufur of Marlboro, Mass. and
Ed. Decker of Swanton wrestled in the
Burlington City hall Monday night for
500 side. collar and elbow, best two in
three. Dufur won.
A Stafford man the other day captured
a very strange animal the size of a small
dog with the head of a hog and an alliga-
tors tail. The finder had been offered
S25 for it when the beast disappeared.
George Doolittle died with Brights
disease at Stowe Sunday. He was the
proprietor of the Mansion house at Green
field many years and the last two years
has been the proprietor of the Mount
Mansfield hotel
United States Judge Wheeler of the
district court of Vermont has handed
down an important decision in the case
of the receiver of the First national bank
of st. Adams against Albert Sowles and
his assignee. The receiver wins S23 900.
A woman appeared in Rutland the
other night and said she was the wife of
+. r. Mandigo, the Bardwell House bar
Der, who has wife in Rutland He de-
MED the story. The woman was deliver
ed of child while on the way back to
Boston.
The standing wood and timber on lot
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belonging to the university of Vermont,
was sold at auction the other day for s.,
400 to Griffith Il Mcintyre of Dandy.
The purchasers have 10 years to remove
the wood, and lumbermen say they paid a
big price for it.
The past year has been a prosperous
one for the Central-Vermont road accord
ing to the showing made at the recent
annual meeting of the stockholders. The
total gross earnings were 81, 4Sl ,607 80 I;
operating expenses, S3,l62, 1890; taxes
and rents, S6l2 ,532.l7; interest 5000,
637.52; real estate purchased, S9,669.33,
leaving a balance of $50, S35.47.
Gov. Ormsbee, Lieut-Gov. Fuller,
Adjutant-General Peck, Quartermaster
General Gilmore, Brig-Gen. Greenleaf
and COL Estey inspected the Montpelier
arsenal last week. Prominent eX-army
and navy officials were invited by ID. b.
Stevens of Burlington to witness the
firing of dynamite shell from an ordin-
airy field-piece with gunpowder as a pro-
polling force, a process he has recently
invented.
The elopement of Miss Bertha George
and young man named Pierce, both of
Rutland, has caused quite stir in that
town. None of the relatives of either
family knew of the affair till informed
by a reporter. Miss George was engaged
to young man who formerly resided at
Rutland, but now holds a position in a
Providence clearinghouse. The day set
for the ceremony was November p, and
part of the brides trousseau had already
been prepared. Miss George was sing
err of considerable prominence.
w. NJ. Buckley of Ludlow is in Jail for
forgery. He is charged with selling a
worthless mortgage for $1,000, and with
yictimizing the Baxter national bank of
Rutland of $3.50; w. S. Smith of Rut-
land, 500, though Smith has since Sc
cured most of it after an amusing race
with an officer to get possession of horse
Artemus Spaulding of Ludlow, 500; f..
l.. Miller, S65; George S. Bridges, $50 ;
Mrs. Hasnett, $500; NJ. III. Goddard ,
$500; F. A. Walker, S75; Theophilus
johnson, 1925.
These are some of the penalties impos-
ed by Judge Rowell at the recent term
of the Rutland county court: John
Eggleston, for 10 first offences, 500 and
costs: Michael Quinn. for 20 first often
ces, 500 and costs; Michael Quinn, for
keeping gambling room, 5000 and costs
Melvin Martin, for assault with intent to
commit rape, five years in the State pris-
on; w. ii. Valiquette, for SO first Often
ces, $500 and costs; W. III. Valiquette, for
keeping gambling room, S75 and costs
Amos q. Leach, for one offence, second
conviction, $40, and costs and 80 days In